-- "It's a right to carry your gun. It's a privilege to conceal it." Rep. Ed Henry, May 2.

-- "I wore this black (suit) today because I said today is a day of mourning for me because I know after this bill is passed we are going to have to put on more black suits and go to more funerals." Rep. Pebblin Warren, D-Tuskegee, May 2.

-- “We are setting us up for a lot of chaos and going back to the wild, wild West." Rep. Mary Moore, D-Birmingham, May 2.

-- "This is about making sure that law abiding citizens have the ability to defend themselves and their family." Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardendale, the bill’s sponsor, after the Senate passed the bill on April 4.

-- "While we should be focused on creating jobs, we instead continue to focus on this unnecessary legislation that does nothing more than find a solution for a problem that does not exist." Business Council of Alabama President and CEO Billy Canary. The BCA opposed the bill’s provision that businesses could not prohibit employees from bringing guns in their vehicles into workplace parking lots.

-- “I don’t think anybody is 100 percent happy with the bill. That probably means we have a pretty good bill,” House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, on April 25, after the National Rifle Association and Alabama Sheriffs' Association announced their support of a compromise version.